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‘Sustainable’ Sonoma-Marin SMART Train: Environmental or Autocratic?

June 14, 2023 2:05 pmJune 14, 2023 2:05 pm

The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) rail line and bicycle-pedestrian pathway project has helped transport passengers across the North Bay since 2002, but at what cost to the taxpayers? The special District established by state legislation has piqued the interest...

California’s Cognitive Dissonance is Heard Around the World

June 14, 2023 6:47 amJune 14, 2023 7:14 am

In California last September, residents were told two things within the space of a few days – first, in a few years they will only be able to buy electric vehicles and then they were told not to charge the...

LA City Councilman Curren Price Charged With 10 Criminal Counts By LA County DA

June 14, 2023 2:30 amJune 14, 2023 2:31 am

Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price was charged with 10 criminal counts, including embezzlement and perjury, on Tuesday, putting the political future of one of LA’s longest-serving Councilmembers in jeopardy. Price, who was an Assemblyman from 2006 to 2009 and...

New Poll Finds California Voters Favor Trump, Biden Among Their Respective Parties

June 13, 2023 7:53 pmJune 13, 2023 9:30 pm

A new Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics poll released on Tuesday found that President Joe Biden currently has a commanding lead amongst Democrats in California while former President Donald Trump is currently ahead amongst Republicans. Last year, polls in California...

Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Bill to Require Parents ‘Affirm’ Trans Children

June 13, 2023 4:40 pmJune 13, 2023 4:40 pm

The California Senate Judiciary Committee just heard and passed Assembly Bill 957 by Assemblywoman Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City), in which a parent could lose custody for not “affirming” or agreeing to a child’s claims about gender identity. The bill, co-authored...

Newsom & Hannity Argue Over Crime, Homelessness In San Francisco

June 13, 2023 12:56 pmJune 13, 2023 12:57 pm

During a widely anticipated Fox News interview on Monday night, California Governor Gavin Newsom and host Sean Hannity unexpectedly argued over San Francisco and on Newsom’s term as Mayor there, with Newsom ending up making questionable, unsubstantiated statements about the...

Labor Secretary Nominee Fumbles AB 5 Hot Potato at Congressional Hearing

June 13, 2023 12:37 pmJune 13, 2023 12:46 pm

President Joe Biden’s nominee for the nation’s top labor secretary, Julie Su, appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday, June 7, 2023—but only after being threatened with a subpoena for her eleventh-hour attempt...